Web Application Developer - Defense · Palantir

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:53:15 GMT
Engineering

Palantir · Washington, D.C. · $135,000 - $200,000/year · onsite

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

Palantir's defense product vertical builds mission-critical products for the modern warfighter. We provide a complete ecosystem where customers can securely integrate and visualize their data, and build sophisticated, full-fledged programs such as common operating pictures, alert-triaging inboxes, and resource allocation planning tools driven by rich-ML models.

Our customers use our defense offering to perform rich analyses that drive core operations within their organizations - these programs are relied upon for daily operations in the command centers and battlefronts of militaries across the world.

This is a frontend engineering role focused on application development for our defense product offering, where you will be responsible for crafting the applications that organizations use every day to keep their countries safe.

You will be architecting and developing interfaces to make sophisticated, data-intensive workflows both powerful and approachable, including to non-technical users.

Some examples of product work you could work on are:

Build for high-scale, collaborative, geospatial workflows (Gaia)

Design sophisticated frameworks to enable complex workflows across applications in a single workspace

Develop the next generation of real-time collaborative tooling and data-analysis solutions (Secure Collaboration)

Technologies We Use

Typescript and React are central to our frontend development.

Blueprint as a re-usable frontend component library.

A combination of open-source and internal technologies that suit the problems at hand.

Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle, Webpack, GitHub, and CircleCI.

What We Value

Passion for building user interfaces that enable users to tackle their problems.

Ability to work optimally in teams of technical and non-technical individuals, e.g. brainstorming and iterating with product designers

Skill and comfort working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.

Experience building high-quality software in a fast-paced CI/CD development environment

Proven ability to learn continuously, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.

Ability to learn new technology and concepts, even without in-depth experience.

What We Require

2+ years of frontend software engineering experience.

Strong frontend coding skills.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent understanding of algorithms, performance, and systems design.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.

Additional Information

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000 - $200,000/year.

Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives.

Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors.

This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives.

We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them.

The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

Benefits

Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance

Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance

Commuter benefits

Relocation assistance

Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based

2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)

10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year

Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events

Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents

Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation

Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child

Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders.

Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir.

Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community.

Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes.

Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation.

Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity.

Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis.

If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed.

If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.